After growing up on a farm in rural Tennessee, Jeff High attained degrees in literature and nursing. He is the three-time winner, in fiction and poetry, of an annual writing contest held by Vanderbilt Medical Center. He lived in Nashville for many years, and throughout the country as a travel nurse, before returning to his original hometown, near where he now works as an operating room RN in open-heart surgery. He is the author of the first Watervalley Novel, More Things In Heaven and Earth.
Praise for Each Shining Hour -Heart-warming, refreshing, and often amusing, this touching novel about a likable yet conflicted new doctor sent to a rural Tennessee town is a rare gem.---New York Times bestselling author Karen White -A young doctor, marking time until he can leave a somnolent farm town for the bustle of a big city, finds more excitement in Watervalley than he bargained for...Each Shining Hour kept me reading far into the night hours!---New York Times bestselling author Ann B. Ross -Heartwarming and tender, Each Shining Hour is a bright and lovely story.---Lynne Branard, author of The Art of Arranging Flowers Praise for More Things in Heaven and Earth, the first Watervalley novel -[Jeff High's] love of his native Tennessee and the human race shines from every page.- --Patrick Taylor, MD, New York Times Bestselling Author of the Irish Country Novels -The best of small-town Americana...this story warmed me, made me laugh, and then kept a smile on my face.- --Charles Martin, New York Times Bestselling Author of Unwritten and When Crickets Cry -One of the best books I've read in years...High has a gift for capturing the humor of small town life... [of] the joy and richness of living where your family has sunk roots deep into the soil. As I read this novel, I fell in love with Watervalley and its citizens.- --Southern Literary Review